Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Zanu PF Makokoba MP Tshinga Dube’s recent electoral victory in the
party’s primary elections might be short-lived after another losing
candidate, Peter Baka Nyoni, sought nullification of the results
claiming the polls were marred by several irregularities.Nyoni’s appeal came after another contender, Nothiwani Dlodlo,
cried foul, accusing the MP of vote-buying, bussing and intimidation of
voters and other candidates.
Nyoni yesterday wrote to the party’s national political commissar,
Engelbert Rugeje appealing to register his complaint, saying hundreds of
his supporters were denied the right to vote due to alleged
manipulation of the voters’ roll.
“My position and that of my supporters is that the party’s
commitment to free fair, credible and transparent elections has been
violated blatantly in our own election process,” he wrote.
“The election that happened and its outcome, whatever the
figures, stands discredited and as a monument of shame to our
revolutionary party, as it became an election with only one candidate
and his supporters, whose cells were the only ones submitted for
verification by four district chairman and commissars, who were and
remain only loyal to him.”
Nyoni said he initially contacted provincial elections co-ordinator George Nare, who referred him to Rugeje.
He appealed to the party to order a re-run of primary elections in Makokoba constituency.